Eoghan Tomás McDermott
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how uncomfortable it was to watch it.
And people who mightn't remember, the Drumcree conflict is a little place outside, or Drumcree itself is a little place outside Portadown.
Portadown is a particularly loyalist community and the Orange Men wanted to walk their traditional route out to Drumcree Church.
That happens to be one of the streets that they wanted to walk down, happened to be a particularly Catholic and nationalist one.
And those residents, given that they view
the Orange Order as sectarian, triumphalist, supremacist, they didn't want them walking down the road.
And for the last 28 years, following significant, significant levels of violence, that the Parades Commission, in their wisdom, have allowed a restricted march of 35 people.
It will be men because, again, the Orange Order only allowed men to
participate in it and they have restricted the music.
Michelle O'Neill obviously says that there's no logic for it and having had 20 years of peace the residents are saying they're now going to begin to mobilise and come together within it.
I think it's one of these that again is emblematic of a number of things in Northern Ireland that actually hasn't been sorted out and if we want to come together as a united island we'd need to figure out stuff like this.
Yeah, and Canada has a huge opportunity both to attract young people, to attract academics, to really establish itself now for the next 20, 30 years.
I think it is, though, a really stark indictment of the current economic model that we're one of the world's wealthiest countries enjoying unprecedented budget surpluses and nearly 7 out of 10 of our young adults feel they have to move away to have a better life.
and a better standard of living.
So we might have this kind of macroeconomic success, but when it boils down to the micro, it's not really creating much security for the next generation.
And also the terrible worry is the level of brain drain that we're going to have with all of these bright, well-educated young people who ideally would be staying on the island are now going away, being doctors, teachers, engineers or whatever.
It's incredibly depressing.
And looking at the budget in, what, a week and a half, 10 days, you would hope that, again, we start to reflect about how we're going to make this really wealthy, wonderful, fantastic country somewhere where our young people want to stay.
I think it's fixing a problem that doesn't actually exist.
Exactly.
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